Mu Yao is a princess of the Xuanyuan Kingdom. Auspicious signs filled the skies at her birth, yet a prophecy foretold that she would not live to adulthood.
Mu Yao studied under an immortal master from childhood and was hidden away by the emperor in the inner palace. She had no friends and had never even met her own mother, the empress.
Fortunately, Mu Yao had a brother who loved her, and her life was relatively peaceful.
But one day her master left, and her brother was kidnapped. Everything changed...
It all began when Mu Yao rescued a woman wearing a fox mask on the street. From that moment, the wheels of fate began to turn.
[Story tags] Heart-wrenching romance, mistaken turns of fate, love and mutual destruction, rekindled love, cultivation fantasy, kingdom and country, beautiful tragedy
[Reader advisory]
1. Two couples, with the main plot taking priority and an intense romance.
2. Be prepared to find sweetness amid heartbreak. The ending is somewhat open, and an unresolved ache awaits.
3. The characters struggle and grow; none of them are perfect.
4. An expansive world, with the plot revolving around political conspiracies and conflicts between personal feelings and duty to the realm.
The realm lies in ruins, and love and hatred end in sorrow. Who can ask how it began, when the beloved is already gone...?
